The Causal Structure of Land Price Determinants

Titus Awokuse and Joshua Duke

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2006, vol. 54, issue 2, 227-245

Abstract: This paper investigates causation contemporaneously and dynamically to elucidate the persistent lack of agreement about what “causes” changes in farmland prices. The analysis synthesizes and extends previous investigations in this area by employing a combination of directed acyclic graphs (DAG), a recently developed modeling technique, and cointegrated VAR model. DAG theory and algorithms offer a powerful tool for analyzing contemporaneous causal relationships among economic variables. The results from this study confirm the importance of measures of return to farming, financial (credit market constraints) and/or macroeconomic activity as significant determinants of fluctuations in farmland prices. Le présent article examine la causalité de façon contemporaine et dynamique pour élucider le manque persistant de consensus quant aux causes de variations du prix des terres. L'analyse est une synthèse des études antérieures de même qu'un prolongement effectuéà l'aide d'une combinaison de graphes acycliques orientés (DAG), technique de modélisation mise au point récemment, et du modèle VAR cointégré. La théorie des DAG et les algorithmes constituent un outil puissant pour analyser les liens causals contemporains des variables économiques. Les résultats confirment l'importance du rendement de l'activité agricole, des contraintes financières (contraintes du crédit) et/ou de l'activité macroéconomique comme déterminants significatifs des variations du prix des terres agricoles.

Date: 2006
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Working Paper: THE CAUSAL STRUCTURE OF LAND PRICE DETERMINANTS (2004)
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